Worker in Nelson knocked unconscious by electric shock (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)
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Worker in Nelson knocked unconscious by electric shock
4:00pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in News
A MAN was knocked unconscious by an electric shock while working at a packaging firm.
Emergency services were called to Excelsior Technologies Ltd, Churchill Way, Lomeshaye Industrial Estate, Nelson, at around 6.30am yesterday.
Fire officers said they believed the man, who later regained consciousness after being taken to hospital, had come into contact with a live electricity cabley.
A police spokesman said: “The man was taken to Burnley General Hospital for a check-up. He lost consciousness initially but regained it.
“There will have to be a health and safety investigation.”
Watch manager Gary Ibbitson said: “We were sent because we thought the machine might have been on fire.
“The company makes a lot of air products and labelling machines.
“The worker was undoing a plastic pipe, but the cable was live underneath and he must have brushed his hand across it.
“It knocked him back and he was unconscious.
“He got a fair wallop from the electricity.”
Comments(5)
cj00
says...
7:37pm Thu 28 Feb 13
Whats a Cabley???
happycyclist
says...
8:15pm Thu 28 Feb 13
LancashireFramebox wrote:Add me to the list of confused.
dagsballicks wrote:Thank you! I was looking at that story too, and they said "debate" yet gave us no option to answer or comment. I think that would definitely have been worth discussing.
Unrelated to this story....
This headline baffles me, it states the word debate, yet comments are not allowed, strange.
"Should he have done it? Debate over Darwen man's decision to take law into his own hands after being plagued by unruly children"
But c'mon, this is the LET were discussing here, of course they're bound to mess things up as per...
I don't think it would have been much of a debate though.
LancashireFramebox
says...
8:21pm Thu 28 Feb 13
happycyclist wrote:There are some crazy people in this world... someone's bound to say something...
LancashireFramebox wrote:Add me to the list of confused.
dagsballicks wrote:Thank you! I was looking at that story too, and they said "debate" yet gave us no option to answer or comment. I think that would definitely have been worth discussing.
Unrelated to this story....
This headline baffles me, it states the word debate, yet comments are not allowed, strange.
"Should he have done it? Debate over Darwen man's decision to take law into his own hands after being plagued by unruly children"
But c'mon, this is the LET were discussing here, of course they're bound to mess things up as per...
I don't think it would have been much of a debate though.
HecticBigBoy
says...
11:17am Fri 1 Mar 13
cj00 wrote:A wobbly cable!!
"Fire officers said they believed the man, who later regained consciousness after being taken to hospital, had come into contact with a live electricity cabley." Whats a Cabley???
LancashireFramebox says...
7:23pm Thu 28 Feb 13
But c'mon, this is the LET were discussing here, of course they're bound to mess things up as per...